Keeping and attracting smart federal employees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We would not have the current disaster if we did not have the Biden disaster.

So true! If Biden had not 1) injected $1.9 trillion into the economy in 2021 with his stimulus plan, resulting in high inflation and economic pain for the lower and middle classes, and 2) facilitated the mass entry of millions of migrants, Trump never would have been re-elected.

The above is what saved us from an economic collapse and is what set up the economy for what Trump wants to take credit for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re going back to a spoils system where most of the staff will change over with each administration. It just won’t be official.

Wut
When have we NOT had a spoils system?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t want that. They want loyalists or to break the government enough to privatize it

+1. Read the news OP. Even when shown that the destruction of federal services is killing Americans (ex lack of preparation for the Camp Mystic floods), MAGA finds something else to blame….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re going back to a spoils system where most of the staff will change over with each administration. It just won’t be official.

Wut
When have we NOT had a spoils system?

The rank and file of federal employees are not political appointees. You just sound ignorant saying things like this. And I suspect you've been told this before. Maybe you should start listening.

[Anonymous]

I quit a GS14 position last month. They would have to offer me double the pay for me to ever consider Federal employment again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody "smart" works for the government. They are either worthless, semi worthless or decent IQ with zero common sense. Regardless, not one government employee produces anywhere near what they consume.

Apparently, you are referencing the head in the snake. Even if you aren’t, you do recognize that your over generalization couldn’t possibly be true. Otherwise, you are not “smart” and a drain on the private sector.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I quit a GS14 position last month. They would have to offer me double the pay for me to ever consider Federal employment again.

Pretty much true for most right now.

It's what MAGA wanted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing. All the feds I know who weren’t DOGEd or RIFfed are leaving because either they are being asked to do unethical things or idiotic things like only using Fox News as a news source for international events.

I'll take things that never happened for $800, Alex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We would not have the current disaster if we did not have the Biden disaster.

Exactly!

No. We wouldn’t have the current disaster if the Rs had the guts to impeach him when they had the opportunities.

Notice that is plural.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My smart coworkers are staying out of spite. Also our work in private industry isn’t as exciting so we are hanging on despite this administration’s goal to get us to quit.

No need to quit. You are serving your country, politicians come and go and none are great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re going back to a spoils system where most of the staff will change over with each administration. It just won’t be official.

Wut
When have we NOT had a spoils system?

We haven’t had one in a very long time. Yes there are political appointees but there is a large civil service that is non-political and has carried out policies of many presidents regardless of party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody "smart" works for the government. They are either worthless, semi worthless or decent IQ with zero common sense. Regardless, not one government employee produces anywhere near what they consume.

Walter Reed medical center employees are worthless?

1 in 6 federal employees are in medical and nursing positions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody "smart" works for the government. They are either worthless, semi worthless or decent IQ with zero common sense. Regardless, not one government employee produces anywhere near what they consume.

Walter Reed medical center employees are worthless?

1 in 6 federal employees are in medical and nursing positions.

Also the federal government has (or had) 300,000 people in STEM fields - physical scientists, biologists, chemists, engineers, toxicologists, epidemiologists, microbiologists and so on supporting NASA, DOE, USGS, DOD, NIH, EPA and other agencies. Tremenous expertise. Now being thrown out to be replaced by some MAGA named Jim Bob who only has a GED and believes in "chemtrails" because hes loyal to Trump. What a godawful mess.

[Anonymous]

Where my wife works, she was the most junior supervisory employee until the three other managers all retired (taking nearly 100 years of experience with them). Now she finds herself in charge. She's like to leave except...she's not qualified for retirement yet, she can't find another job, and if she left she would be replaced by somebody even less qualified. Her office is providing an important service to the taxpayers, but the political appointees above her don't seem to care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody "smart" works for the government. They are either worthless, semi worthless or decent IQ with zero common sense. Regardless, not one government employee produces anywhere near what they consume.

Walter Reed medical center employees are worthless?

1 in 6 federal employees are in medical and nursing positions.

Also the federal government has (or had) 300,000 people in STEM fields - physical scientists, biologists, chemists, engineers, toxicologists, epidemiologists, microbiologists and so on supporting NASA, DOE, USGS, DOD, NIH, EPA and other agencies. Tremenous expertise. Now being thrown out to be replaced by some MAGA named Jim Bob who only has a GED and believes in "chemtrails" because hes loyal to Trump. What a godawful mess.

Add to that tens of thousands of economists, statisticians, data scientists, cybersecurity and IT experts and so on. Over 20% of the federal workforce has an advanced degree, far higher than most of the US private sector workforce. And now thousands of these experts are being let go, and if they are being replaced at all, are being replaced by teenage nepo babies of big Trump donors like the unqualified, clueless DOGE kids.